Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1887-01-06
For the HERALD.
Obituary.


Died-At her home, in the village OF Buena
Vista. Grant county. Wis. December %. 1886.
after short but painful illness, Mrs. Mary Ann
Cardey. wife OF John b. Cardey, aged IS years ,
II months and days.
A strange mournful stiffness over
spreads our village. An awful mute
ness fills her room and a curious hush
falls upon those gathered around her.
A wife and a mother, friend and a
neighbor in sacred anguish awaits the
chilling hand of icy Death. A few brief
moments more and her life on earth is
done-she is dead. With it the unex-
pected word carries wave of the deepest
sorrow to our every home, and all grow
hushed and quiet as memories in haste
enshroud our minds.
Who, among her numerous friends and
acquaintance who have so long known
her as the picture of health and strength,
had thought that she would so soon be
called to teach us the solemn lesson that
all must shortly learn? And yet, she
who but few days since lived and
moved in our midst as an emblem of life
and spirit, now lies calm and placid in
deaths embrace, as though wrapt in
slumber soft and still. And as, for the
last time, in silence we gaze upon her
face with its closed eyes and sad solemn
smile, and as in our strange musings we
try to follow her in spirit to where she
had,
'AGone before
To that unknown and silent shore"
so dimly dreamt of here, in memory we
were carried backward on the stream of
the past, to the time when in the dawn
of her childhood she came with her par
ents from Ohio, her native state in 1916,
and first inhaled the health giving breezes
of Wisconsin, onward we trace her
youthful steps and soon we behold her
in the full blush of womanhood, as she
stands before the hymeneal altar and is
united in marriage with Mr.. John b.
Cardey. with whom she lived until her
DEATH and who, with three sons and two
daughters, are left to shed tears of sor-
row in mingled grief for the loss of a
faithful wife and a loving mother.
The deep solicitude and kind care of
her husband for her during her illness,
bear striking marks of true devotion in
the constant efforts he made to relieve
her sufferings by employing the best
medical aid within his reach; and the
filial affection of her children constantly
called them to her side in answer to her
slightest wish.
And yet their kindness could not save,
The loved one from the silent grave.
But we say to them in the language OF
another, that bears the impress of atrue
soul,
o, may there come q voice TO you
Sounding the waters Ger.
Saying in love- saying in truth
You shall bear grief no more,
And all your tears be wiped away.
When in yon land OF cloudless days.
In silence they bore her lifeless form
from her home away to the silent ceme-
terry, in British Hollow, where the re-
mains were laid beside those of her rela-
tives who had gone before; and the high
esteem in which she was held by her
many relations and friends was fully at
tested in the large number Of people,
who assembled at the home on Tuesday
at o'clock, where funeral services were
held, and who in mournful procession
followed her to the grave. ID.
British Hollow, Wis. Dec. 90, 1886.